Example sentences of "[adv prt] as [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you often get down the Tornados coming , whizzing down , below you , you know you 're looking down as they come past |
| 2 | WORKMEN spoke today of the constant threat they live with day by day : that they will be mercilessly gunned down as they go about earning a living . |
| 3 | Marcus rolled his sleeve down as they walked along . |
| 4 | The fighting in our immediate area seemed to have quietened down as we handed over the prisoners to join , I would think , about a couple of hundred , all gathered together in a field close to the orchard . |
| 5 | He was run down as he cycled home from the shops . |
| 6 | THE death of a father-of-four , mown down as he cycled home from the shops , has brought tragic memories flooding back for a young mother . |
| 7 | ‘ He was coming down this path from the ferry , and here he was struck down as he passed by . |
| 8 | DETECTIVES are hunting the killer of a friendly bus driver gunned down as he walked up the driveway to his North-East home . |
| 9 | Robert waved her down as he leapt out , and she was obliged to wait . |
| 10 | He slid one hand to her hips , pressing her into contact with his body all the way down as he did so . |
| 11 | She stood beside him , pressing his back down as he leaned forward again . |
| 12 | She turned , straightening up , then held out her ticket for inspection , looking the man up and down as she did so . |
| 13 | It jolted up the lane , slowed down as it came out into the open area in front of the quarry gates , and stopped . |
| 14 | I 'd stamp up and down as I walked along , and up would pop the balls that had been buried in the sand . |
| 15 | The lorry-driver jumped down as I leapt out of the mini and ran to the black car . |
| 16 | Their long , slurred vowels rendered their German almost incomprehensible to me , though it was impossible not to listen in as they argued more loudly and grinned more broadly at each other 's jokes as the beer did its work . |
| 17 | So as far as this meeting 's concerned , erm , most of our meetings are basically business meetings , but we , we have tried and we will try to put in speakers and , and do different things from time to time , we had er , er a woman last time who 'd been to Central America recently and she gave us a very interesting talk on a visit to El Salvador and Guatamala , erm , and we , we 'd like to do that more often , but , but what we do really erm , to begin with any rate , is we go th we go through the , the headings on this sheet , on the , on the minutes , we use them as headings for others and erm , items on the agenda and er some may have more to say than others and there are one or two not on there which we 'll pop in as we go along . |
| 18 | He had locked himself in as he did not want to be disturbed by Emily . |
| 19 | She saw one of them stumble and took her chance , moving in as he staggered up , catching him beneath the chin with stiffened fingers . |
| 20 | ( ’ All right , so you 're married , ’ a badgeless fellow chimed in as he slid by . |
| 21 | Her lips pout around the filter and her cheeks collapse in as she draws deeply . |
| 22 | I could walk as fast as I ever did but I tended to roll my shoulders and turn my three-toed foot in as I did so . |
| 23 | She stopped and looked full face into the mirror , as if , among the distorted outlines of the bar she was standing in as it stretched far into the mirror-room that swallowed it up and pulled it into strange shapes , she was looking for something not apparent in the real room . |
| 24 | Documentation , too , is best built in as you go along . |
| 25 | to I mean ideally , ideally it 'll be better to fill it in as you go along |
| 26 | Move the thumbs towards each other 30 times , remembering to tuck your bottom under and pull your tummy in as you do so . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , such a day , and to stroll along as I did so many times in the old days . |
| 28 | The strains of Somewhere Over The Rainbow filtered through as they left perhaps someday their dreams will come true . |
| 29 | Onions will be ripening in the sun now , and the tops will bend over as they do so . |
| 30 | And the worst of it is that you do n't even see those people you knock over as you charge along . ’ |